moneys
- 1Funds or sums of money regarded together as a single collective body.
The committee voted on how the remaining moneys should be spent.
Unclaimed moneys from the estate were eventually returned to the state.
Note
The sums are pooled here, and the grammar can follow the meaning rather than the form. In "All the moneys collected for the poor was wasted," the plural is treated as one body and takes a singular verb. That agreement sets it apart from the separate-currencies plural, where each money stays distinct. In careful writing, a plural verb is the safer choice.
- 2Plural of money.
The bank's vault held moneys from across the entire continent.
Early traders accepted shells, beads, and other primitive moneys.
Note
Here the plural is literal rather than playful. Each money is a separate currency of the kind a state or monetary union stands behind, so three moneys means three monetary systems, not three coins. That is the difference from the joking coins-and-bills plural. Both share a spelling, and context alone tells you whether the speaker is counting systems or loose change.
- 3Plural of money.
The boy spread all his moneys across the rug to admire them.
Grandpa kept his moneys in a rattling cookie tin on the shelf.
Note
A playful count-noun use. Money normally works as a mass noun, but this plural treats it as a heap of separate pieces that can be spread out, counted and admired one by one. The tone is deliberately jokey, which suits light writing about someone's coins and bills. In neutral prose, coins, bills or plain money is the safer choice.
moneys is a form of money
money, noun: The funds that a person, family, or organization has available, such as cash and bank deposits. Full entry
- Spelling
- money → moneys: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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